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A8-3870 APU

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Release date ≤ Q1 2014.

Average Bench: 46.7% (888th of 1442)

Based on 6,332 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00300F10 Model: AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Poor: 35%Average: 46.7% Great: 56%
Gaming
Gaming 47%
Yacht
Desktop
Desktop 49%
Yacht
Workstation
Workstation 33%
Sail boat

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Below average average bench

The AMD A8-3870 APU averaged 53.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Memory Latency 64.2Pts
Avg. Dual Core Speed 92Pts

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD A8-3870 APU is 21.6%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD A8-3870 APU performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Multi Core Speed 175Pts
Avg. Octa Core Speed 174Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 6,332 samples)
Rank 88846.7%
Min Avg Max
47.2 Memory 64.2 79.5
37.3 1-Core 46.1 53.1
71.5 2-Core 92 106
42.3% 67.4 Pts
Min Avg Max
108 4-Core 170 205
126 8-Core 174 208
22.9% 172 Pts
Min Avg Max
126 64-Core 175 206
10.8% 175 Pts
User Benchmarks BenchNormalHeavyServer
The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
FM1 , 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg)
54.4% Above average
Memory 80
1-Core 49.8
2-Core 99.6
49% 76.5 Pts
4-Core 170
8-Core 168
23% 169 Pts
64-Core 167
10% 167 Pts
Socket M2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.85 GHz (avg)
53.7% Above average
Memory 77.4
1-Core 46.3
2-Core 94.2
47% 72.6 Pts
4-Core 177
8-Core 170
23% 173 Pts
64-Core 166
10% 166 Pts
Socket M2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg)
53.4% Above average
Memory 76.1
1-Core 46.8
2-Core 93.9
47% 72.3 Pts
4-Core 180
8-Core 182
24% 181 Pts
64-Core 175
11% 175 Pts
Socket M2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg)
47.7% Average
Memory 72
1-Core 45.4
2-Core 84.1
44% 67.2 Pts
4-Core 136
8-Core 152
19% 144 Pts
64-Core 144
9% 144 Pts
CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg)
47.4% Average
Memory 67.2
1-Core 45
2-Core 91.4
43% 67.9 Pts
4-Core 160
8-Core 166
22% 163 Pts
64-Core 165
10% 165 Pts
CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg)
45.4% Average
Memory 60.3
1-Core 47.7
2-Core 94.6
42% 67.5 Pts
4-Core 178
8-Core 176
24% 177 Pts
64-Core 178
11% 178 Pts
FM1 , 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg)
40.1% Average
Memory 49.9
1-Core 46.6
2-Core 93.7
38% 63.4 Pts
4-Core 175
8-Core 178
24% 177 Pts
64-Core 177
11% 177 Pts
CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg)
38.7% Below average
Memory 49
1-Core 44.9
2-Core 90.8
37% 61.6 Pts
4-Core 165
8-Core 164
22% 165 Pts
64-Core 170
10% 170 Pts
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Gaming
Gaming 6%
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Desktop
Desktop 45%
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Workstation
Workstation 5%
Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A75-D3H

CPU
A8-3870 APUAMD  $81Bench 47%, 6,332 samples24x
GPU
Radeon HD 6550DAMDBench 4%, 4,197 samples14x
R9 270XAMD  $199Bench 27%, 77,943 samples5x
Radeon HD 6530DAMDBench 3%, 4,675 samples4x
SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston  $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples4x
Green 120GB (2016)WD  $84Bench 53%, 21,990 samples2x
M5 Pro 128GBPlextor  $130Bench 84%, 4,476 samples2x
RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples17x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples6x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples4x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 48% - Average Total price: $117

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Average

17 months ago.

It's a pretty decent cpu for being 12 years old at this point. You wont be doing any sort of modern gaming on it, but it would suit for a system to play older games and retro games. I find the iGPU quite useful to have too. It can play older games decently well!

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Terrible

4 years ago.

This CPU is absolute trash, worse than notebook CPUs from the time such as the intel i5-3340M. The 6550D integrated graphics is also quite awful, performing worse than a hd 515 intel mobile gpu.

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